Manighar ran into a good one (More Joyous) last start but other than that his autumn has been a rampage through Australia's richest middle-distance weight-for-age prizes.

The French-bred galloper, considered a second-rung stayer when trained by Luca Cumani for last spring's Melbourne Cup (in which he ran a creditable fifth), has stepped up several notches under Peter Moody and can take out his fourth Group 1 trophy for 2012 when he contests this Saturday's Doomben Cup.

He'll have to beat the likes of Shez Sinsational, the Kiwi mare who was an impressive winner of the Hollindale Stakes on the Gold Coast last start. Can he do it? Peter Lyne's preview will lead this week's Winning Post.

Elsewhere, it's Scone Horse Week and the Hunter Valley track takes over the spotlight in NSW racing with its rich two-day carnival, featuring the Scone Cup on Friday and the Dark Jewel on Saturday. Winning Post will carry full liftout formguides for both meetings.

There's also three black-type races at Flemington this Saturday (Andrew Ramsden, Gibson Carmichael and Straight Six) and one at Morphettville.

In fact there's quality racing all around the country this weekend and our form coverage kicks off on Friday with full form guides for five TAB meetings including cup days at Scone and Mt Gambier. The metro racing this Saturday is at Flemington in Melbourne, Scone in NSW, Morphettville in Adelaide, Doomben in Brisbane and Belmont in Perth.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Mildura (Vic/SA/Tas/WA  edition), Kembla Grange (NSW edition) and Gold Coast (Qld edition), as well as fields, tips, ratings and/or colours for other TAB Saturday cards.

On Sunday we've got full form guides for four more meetings including McKell Cup day at Randwick, Great Southern Steeple day at Mornington and Mildura Cup day.

Don't forget Winning Post now carries trackwork reports for all four Melbourne training tracks, all three in Sydney, Morphettville in Adelaide and a general Brisbane report.

Away from the form, we've got news columns from Queensland, NSW, six Victorian districts, SA and Tasmania.

On page 4, our readers are fired up across all the big issues and on page 5 Richard Callander has the inside mail on NSW racing. Further back in the book Tony Kneebone presents his lively Snippets column, Richo adds his unique take on the sport and Peter Lucas and John Barker go head to head on the burning issues in sport.

If you're a breeding enthusiast you won't want to miss our 8-page WP Thoroughbreds liftout , featuring contributions from TVN's Tara Madgwick. And sports punters get two pages of previews, stats and markets in Sporting Post.

Don't miss this week's Winning Post, available  from Thursday afternoon in Melbourne and surrounds, the crack of dawn Friday elsewhere around Australia.